Thursday 30 September 2010

Photographers that inspire



Brian Duffy - was one of a new generation of photographers who started working in the late 50s for fashion magazines and creative advertising agencies, this new style of work "documentary fashion photography" would go on to contribute to the creative explosion of the 60s, 70s and go on to influence new students in the years to come.

Item & location - Homework

Due to the days disappearing fast and a full weekend of prior commitments I eventually got the chance to read the homework assignment, with a pressing deadline my prefered idea was to take the images in and around the office.



Firstly I sketch out a few ideas which I thought would meet project brief these quick sketches would help me to focus and develop my ideas a little further. The 5 photographs would depict events throughout a typical working day, I tried to take each of the 5 photographs with a different shutter speed, F-stop and ISO setting and manual focus, the images were also taken without using flash, I chose to use my 50 mm lens (macro) this choice of lens would give me a shallow depth of field and would help to concentrate the eye on the chosen item, I think it worked better for four of the images.



After looking at all the images, I made my final selection of five which I felt would work best in a square format and met the brief, the only post production undertaken was to crop the shots in Photoshop to an 8” x 8”  size and a file size of 300 dpi, during this production process I did not look at any manipulation to colour or applying filters.

My first reaction to the images would be, to keep a closer eye on the white balance next time...